A hidden collection of Irish manuscripts
Speaker(s): Richard Sharpe
Related events: New sources for book history – International Conference
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Collection: CERl conferences
Recorded: November 28, 2017
Abstract:
Richard Sharpe (University of Oxford), A hidden collection of Irish manuscripts The aim is to recover a perception of the Irish manuscript collection of Sir William Betham (1779--1853), formed quickly, I should argue, between c. 1839 and 1846, using the original valuation list from 1847, press reports, earlier offer-lists, bindings, different numberings, nineteenth-century cataloguing, and correspondence. One aspect of the collection that emerges is Betham's high dependence on his contact with a family of Irish scribes in Co. Cork.
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